The DeFi space is gradually realising its unique value proposition. The DeFi space is gradually realising its unique value proposition. It is without a doubt that **DeFi** is still in the early stage where users still experience sufficient frictions in interacting with the DeFi applications. However, the **DeFi** world is working together to grow and produce innovative solutions to reduce these user frictions and connecting the dots to form an integrate decentralized…
@Jesus in November 2020
DeFi Asset Management Overview **ASSET MANAGEMENT SECTION SUMMARY** The development of the **asset management sector** is still in its early stage and is correlated with the growth of the broader DeFi industry. Despite the strong growth such as **InstaDApp**, **Argent**, **Set Protocol** and **Melon Protocol** in H1 2020, asset management projects overall have not yet reached widespread usage. However, the characteristics of asset management projects determine their…
How to earn Interest With Uniswap **Uniswap** is a completely **decentralized exchange** for ETH and other tokens that are issued on the Ethereum blockchain, for example Compound’s COMP token. **Uniswap provides two main use cases**: users can provide liquidity for others who want to exchange tokens or they can exchange tokens against each other. If you provide liquidity, you earn a commission fee of all trades being made by traders. **In the following we will take a closer…
Smart Contracts In Financial Application Financial primitives: core financial functions coded into smart contracts **Smart contracts** are very flexible and offer solutions for industries such as energy, logistics, healthcare, and in particular, the financial sector. Here, smart contracts can enable simple functions such as payment (**stablecoin**) and credit (**lending/borrowing**), as well as more complex functions such as derivatives (**leverage, swaps**) and trading with…
Decentralized Finance Usability (DeFi) Usability risk Could DeFi be A risk, or better, a major weak point closely related to the **technical implementation**, is the usability or user experience of DeFi protocols that are often complicated, unintuitive, and designed for crypto-native users. **DeFi projects** have struggled to gain traction beyond those that are inherently familiar with **Ethereum**. Many products require users to handle multiple tokens within their own,…
Religious And Psychological Functions Of Money Religious and Psychological Functions of Money **Money** is said to have various psychological or religious functions. **One new religion told its followers that donations would expel the devil’s impurities.** These donations, which could be as much as ten million dollar per person, are a kind of religious payment of our day. **Money** is one way of “purifying” through repayment of **social obligations**. A book entitled…
A Real Market: What Is a “Distributed” Market? A Real Market: What Is a “Distributed” Market? Now let’s think how we can describe markets from the perspective of **“no money, no market.”** We have said that a **“concentrated market”** in modern economics is a fi ction. How then could we comprehend real markets as opposed to theirs? It is time to say what a distributed market is. A market is a “place,” in a metaphorical sense, where we buy and sell goods with money. It is not…
Is Money the Same as Language? Is Money the Same as Language? Rather than making barter more effi cient and convenient, money makes exchange between a good and itself possible. Money, while opening a door to market economy and with it a rich material civilization based on wide commodity trading, can also bring unwelcome phenomena like hyperinfl ation, bubbles, crises, and recession when they collapse. Like language, it is a double-edged sword. Human beings can use their two…